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Rachael Williams

Associate Dallas

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Biography

Rachael Williams is a corporate associate in the Dallas office of Haynes Boone. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, corporate compliance and governance, and other business and commercial transactions. Rachael has experience representing corporate and private equity buyers and sellers in structuring, negotiating, documenting, and closing acquisitions and dispositions, as well as assisting corporate clients with complex commercial agreements and related arrangements.

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Selected Client Representations

Represented Construction Partners, Inc. in its $950 million acquisition of Asphalt Inc., LLC, d/b/a Lone Star Paving, a prominent Austin, Texas-based asphalt manufacturing and paving company.
Represented majority equityholder and co-founder in the sale of substantially all of the equity of Opifex LLC, a Texas equipment rental company, to Synergy Equipment, a Southeastern construction equipment rental business.
Represented Gulf Winds International, Inc., a leading drayage, transloading, and domestic freight provider, in its sale of equity to The Sterling Group.
Represented Landry’s, LLC in a carve-out acquisition of two restaurant brands—Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouses and Del Frisco’s Grilles—from private equity firm L Catterton.
Represented Engage2learn, a provider of professional development coaching and technology tools serving districts in the public K-12 market, in its sale of equity (recapitalization) to Leeds Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity firm.
Represented WatchGuard Video, a nationwide leader in the production and distribution of police video systems, including in-car video systems and body-worn cameras for public safety systems, in its sale to Motorola Solutions.
Represented Ericsson Inc. in its acquisition of Placecast, a leading enterprise-grade platform for data management and display advertising based out of California.

Awards and Recognitions

Included in the "Ones to Watch" category of The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., 2026

Publications and Speaking Engagements

“Current Trends in Indemnification Provisions in Acquisition Agreements,” co-author, The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation, Vol. 53 No. 7, April 15, 2020.

Qualifications

Education

B.A., Harvard University, 2014, cum laude

J.D., Stanford Law School, 2017

Admissions

Texas